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jbrockmendel opened this issue Dec 31, 2020 · 1 comment
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API/BUG: silently-ignored dtype in DataFrame constructor #38842

jbrockmendel opened this issue Dec 31, 2020 · 1 comment
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I would expect this to raise rather than silently ignore:

df = pd.DataFrame({"A": ["foo", "bar"]}, dtype="i8")

>>> df
     A
0  foo
1  bar

>>> df.dtypes
A    object
dtype: object
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duplicate of #24435?

@simonjayhawkins simonjayhawkins added Constructors Series/DataFrame/Index/pd.array Constructors Duplicate Report Duplicate issue or pull request and removed Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels Dec 31, 2020
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